Chapter XVI Dispatch of Troops

"Okay, I'll just say these things here, let's go back and think about it! Now promulgate the combat mission!"

Hearing this, all the officers straightened their waists, raised their heads and chests, looked at their instructors seriously, and the excitement in their eyes could not be concealed, and they had trained hard for three months just for this day. Now it's finally here!

After taking the homemade folder and opening it, he looked up at the officers with shiny eyes below, and shouted, "Huo Hu!"

"Here!"

"Your regiment will go to Fujian to develop the Fujian base area, and our fleet will send you to 'Sansha'! After your unit has gained a firm foothold, it will immediately organize troops to spread out in the direction of Yacheng, Shuimen, and Qinyu, gradually expand the base area, stabilize the localities, and actively organize an army to develop from the capital of northern Fujian to the south, but resolutely not allow the attack on the county seat!"

"Understood!"

"Alright, sit down!"

"Liang Wendong, the head of the second regiment!"

"Here!"

Seeing this senior officer who was personally taught, Huo Shan's eyes were hard to say, this guy is a real military genius, although he has only been in contact with the military for three months, he has successfully completed his studies with amazing talent, and even Huo Shan's advanced teaching materials such as 'infantry and artillery coordination' prepared for senior officers can often draw inferences from one another, which is really a rare general. Therefore, after the army was officially formed, he also became one of the only five regiment commanders in the first batch of 20,000 troops of the Huo Family Army!

"Your second regiment will land in the Shantou area of Guangdong, and your five battalions of 4,000 people will develop from south to north and gradually occupy the whole of Guangdong!"

"Understood!"

"Sit down!"

"Huo Qiguang, the head of the third regiment!"

"Here!" he, like Huo Rongguang, the head of the General Political Department, is also a descendant of the Huo family, a former member of the militia group!

"Your three regiments will go to Wuxuan County, Guangxi, occupy the towns and villages of Wuxuan, form local defense forces, and develop around!"

"Understood!"

"Liu Wenqi, the head of the fourth regiment!"

"The mission of your four regiments is to occupy Dien Bien Phu in Annam! You four regiments are going abroad to fight, and I will allow you to occupy all the county towns except north of the Tuojiang River and along the coast, provided that you can hold it!"

"Understood, promise to complete the task!" Liu Wenqi replied excitedly.

Looking at his appearance, Huo Shan smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be happy too early! Abroad is not as good as at home, where we have no mass base, so we will not act as smoothly as at home." Of course, there is no need to worry too much, we also have enough advantages, Annam has been a vassal state of China since ancient times, and wherever people speak Chinese and use Han surnames, as long as we get rid of all the landlords, merchants, and ethnic elements, then more than 10 million Annamite people will become Han people who support our rule. ”

"Understood!"

"Huo Jianguang, the head of the Fifth Regiment!"

"Here!"

"Your task is to occupy Balikpapan in Borneo and gradually develop to the whole island, where the natives and Dutch are not strong, so your task is to reclaim enough land to provide enough means of production and fertile land for our future immigrants!" Huo Shan's face slowly turned cold.

"I believe that you have all read the information of Nanyang, and the blood feud of our compatriots needs us to avenge, so I do not want a living indigenous person in our occupied area, except for a woman under the age of thirty and a child under the age of six. Yīn's cold words echoed in the large war room, and everyone's psychology was a little cold. Now Borneo has a population of nearly 5 million, except for the 500,000 or 600,000 Chinese in Lanfang State, which occupies West Borneo, the rest are all indigenous, even if you remove women and children, there are nearly 2 million, and it is unacceptable to kill so many people! However, seeing the frosty face of the instructor, no one dared to open his mouth to persuade him!

Looking at the way everyone stopped talking, Huo Shan didn't say anything, after all, at this time, the Lanfang tragedy that killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese in one fell swoop had not happened. It is understandable that it is difficult to accept for a while to let the troops who have just formed the army kill so many people!

"Jianguang, Borneo is in the tropics, the rainforest is dense, the environment is complex, the land is cultivated, all need manpower, those natives are lazy, but they are also rare, let them contribute to our rule there! Moreover, it is normal for a few people to die under heavy labor!"

"Understood, instructor, don't worry!" Huo Jianguang said understandingly.

"Well, this is the combat mission at the present stage, and when the next batch of five regiments is formed into an army, they will be sent to other provinces to carry out combat missions, so if you don't have your share, if you want to be a division commander or army commander, then give me the hard work to train and expand the army! Our newly established army officer school will give you 50 training places per regiment every year, and the appointment of officers above the battalion level must be reported to the army headquarters, and the military headquarters will decide on it, and the military chiefs of various localities will not have personnel power! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" everyone stood up and said loudly.

"Okay, now the meeting is adjourned, and the officers assigned to the combat mission should go back and prepare! Three days later, leave on time!"

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In Taiwan during the chūn season, the nights are cool, and the sea breeze blowing from the west carries the salty taste of the sea, driving away the heat of the chūn day.

The soft moonlight sprinkled all over the land, and the mountain villa shrouded in silver veils had become quiet, except for the loyal guards on duty, almost everyone had already fallen asleep! However, ten o'clock in the evening was not the time for Huo Shan to rest.

"Young Master, the fleet you need is ready, and in three days, they will dock at Keelung!" Huo Long, who participated in this kind of meeting for the first time, was a little unaccustomed to it, but the good education he received made him adapt quickly.

"Well, that's good! Yun Feng, how is our army equipped now?"

Hearing the young master's question, Li Yunfeng, who was already the head of the General Logistics Department and was in charge of the research and development and procurement of military equipment, said in a homely manner: "The Type 80 rifle is already half equipped, with 200 rounds of ammunition per person, five grenades, three sets of combat uniforms, Type 80 steel helmets, and other individual combat equipment have already been distributed! However, because our mortars have just been developed, there is not enough steel, so each regiment is only equipped with ten and three base ammunition, and other new equipment includes pistols, machine guns, Infantry artillery has already been sampled, as long as there is enough steel, it can quickly equip the troops!"

"Now, it is very good to be able to do this, our heavy industry has just started, and it will take nearly a year for a large number of equipment ordered from Europe to return to China and start production! Therefore, in the future, the task of our military factories will still be mainly to produce rifles, bullets, grenades, and a small number of mortars!"

"Got it, young master!"

"Skilled workers are our wealth, to protect their interests, in addition, the research and development funds invested in the factory can only be more than not less, how much is needed can be approved by Fuber!"

"Yes, young master! Yun Feng remembered!"

"How's your military intelligence going?"

"According to the young master's orders, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Annan, Hainan Island, and Borneo already have our eyeliner, and with the Huo family's inns and shops in various places, our intelligence bureau is confident that it will escort the next military operation!"

"It seems that you have done a good job, Huo Wolf!" Huo Shi said with a smile.

"Hehe, thanks to the young master's 'Hades', otherwise I wouldn't have been able to develop so fast!" Speaking of his work achievements, the guy who originally had a serious face couldn't help but smile!

"Huo Wolf, you remember that 'Hades' can only be used abroad, not at home, and can only be used for outsiders, not for Chinese people! If anyone violates this principle, I will not spare him!" Huo Shan said with a cold face. The so-called 'Hades' is the white sè powder obtained by the repeated refining of the Great Smoke, and in later generations it has a deeply hated name 'Hailu Oyin'. Although, this is a demon, but for the sake of his ideals, Huo Shan still released it.

"Yes, Huo Wolf remembered!" "After seeing the tragic situation of drug addiction after smoking 'Hades', he also understood that the young master would make a decision

The reason for the rules, therefore, did not hesitate to agree!

"In the future, all the money earned by the 'Hades', in addition to being used as the funds of your military intelligence bureau, will be handed over to Fuber as our development funds!"

"Got it, young master!"

"Huo Tian, Huo Di, Huo Xuan, Huo Huang, Huo Hong, Huo Huang, Huo Huang, the six of you are now in charge of the family's business in various places, and you will be responsible for the logistics and supply of the garrisons in various places in the future! Moreover, you also have to recruit displaced people from all over the country to send them to our occupied area in Nanyang, understand?"

"Don't worry, young master, we know what to do?" said the six in unison.

"Zhengqing, you are the head of the General Logistics Department, and you have to worry more about replenishing and transporting guns and ammunition! After all, we do not have military factories in various places, everything depends on Taiwan's supply, and the task of your logistics department is very heavy!"

"Young master, don't worry, the logistics department will go all out to do a good job in the logistics support of the troops!" Wang Zhengqing knew very well in his heart that in terms of military talent, he was not as good as the officers of other field troops, and he was older, and the space for military progress was already very narrow, if it were not for the trust of the young master, he would not be able to do his current position, so Wang Zhengqing, who was deeply moved in his heart, secretly decided that he could only repay the trust of the young master with his perfect work.

Of course, Huo Shan did not know that he had won the allegiance of his subordinates, and the reason why he chose Wang Zhengqing as the logistics minister and Li Yunfeng as the equipment minister was not their military talent, but their talent in management, after all, there were many people who could fight in the war these years, but there were indeed few people who could straighten out the huge logistics supply, conscientiously carry out research on new equipment, and convert the results into new equipment.

"Huo Shi, Huo Rongguang, the next heaviest task is the two of you, as the supreme head of the military department, you must firmly grasp the direction of the army's advance, and ensure that if you occupy a place, you must keep a place. In the several directions in which we will use our troops, the Qing Dynasty army and the natives of Southeast Asia are far from being our opponents, so our main task at the present stage is to carry out the various policies we have formulated before without discounting, strive to carry out ideological education work, use the melting pot of the army to train enough local officials for us, and ensure that the village head of every village and the head of the town are all veterans who have undergone political education in our army!"

"Okay, more than a dozen of you, it's been a long time since you've been apart, take this opportunity to have a good chat, otherwise you won't have much time to get together when you're busy in the future!" Huo Shan finally said.

"Squeak!"

Just as everyone was about to get up and leave, a cute little head suddenly popped in through the crack in the open door.

"Ping'er, come here, sleep with the young master!" Huo Shan, who had just finished arranging the task, joked with a relaxed body and mind.

"Phew, young master, don't be ashamed!" The little girl's pretty little face immediately turned into a big red cloth, and after spitting, she turned around and ran out.

Looking at everyone's strange eyes, Young Master Huo touched his nose a little embarrassed, and was happy for a while, but he didn't pay attention to the occasion when he spoke. It's a bit of a mess now!

"Young Master, Ping'er is still young, you are not allowed to bully her!" Huo Feng, who was very hairy, said with a smile.

"No, how could it be!" Young Master Huo shook his hand again and again.